SETUP-SCREEN DISPLAY CONTROLLING APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, SETUP-SCREEN DISPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND DATA STRUCTURE

• US 20080130992A1
• Filed: 05/04/2007
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fujii, Toyoko
• Granted Patent: US 7,853,078 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/167
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/622 with simulation on a subsidiary picture reproducer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/628 Memory colours, e.g. skin or sky

Abstract

A setup-screen display controlling apparatus includes a sample image display controlling unit that displays a sample image in which a plurality of subject groups set for every color to be corrected are arranged on the setup screen for confirmation of a correction effect involved in adjustment of an amount of color correction; a setting-input-filed display controlling unit that displays a setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image; and a correspondence indicating unit that explicitly indicates the correspondence between each subject group and the corresponding setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image.

Claims

1. A setup-screen display controlling apparatus comprising:

a sample image display controlling unit that displays a sample image in which a plurality of subject groups set for every color to be corrected are arranged on the setup screen for confirmation of a correction effect involved in adjustment of an amount of color correction;

a setting-input-filed display controlling unit that displays a setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image; and

a correspondence indicating unit that explicitly indicates the correspondence between each subject group and the corresponding setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image.

2. The setup-screen display controlling apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, in the sample image, the subject groups are set for every color to be corrected in an image of a subject arbitrarily selected by a user by an image recognition technology.

3. The setup-screen display controlling apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, in the sample image, the subject groups are set for every color to be corrected by a user in advance in an image of a subject arbitrarily selected by the user.

4. The setup-screen display controlling apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein one of the subject groups is set for a person.

5. The setup-screen display controlling apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein one of the subject groups is set for a subject in blue.

6. The setup-screen display controlling apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein one of the subject groups is set for a subject in green.

7. The setup-screen display controlling apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein one of the subject groups is set for a subject in white.

8. The setup-screen display controlling apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein one of the subject groups is set for a subject in black.

9. The setup-screen display controlling apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein both a daytime sample image and a night sample image are prepared.

10. The setup-screen display controlling apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein image data displayed in the sample image to which the amount of color correction is applied is stored in a recording medium.

11. A server apparatus comprising:

a sample image display controlling unit that displays a sample image in which a plurality of subject groups set for every color to be corrected are arranged on a screen of a client terminal connected to the server apparatus over a network for confirmation of a correction effect involved in adjustment of an amount of color correction;

a setting-input-filed display controlling unit that displays a setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image on the screen of the client terminal; and

a correspondence indicating unit that explicitly indicates the correspondence between each subject group and the corresponding setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image on the screen of the client terminal.

12. An image processing system comprising:

a sample image display controlling unit that displays a sample image in which a plurality of subject groups set for every color to be corrected are arranged for confirmation of a correction effect involved in adjustment of an amount of color correction;

a setting-input-filed display controlling unit that displays a setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image;

a correspondence indicating unit that explicitly indicates the correspondence between each subject group and the corresponding setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image;

a correction information storage unit that stores the amount of color correction; and

an image correction unit that performs color correction to image data on the basis of the amount of color correction read out from the correction information storage unit.

13. A printing apparatus comprising:

a display device;

a sample image display controlling unit that displays a sample image in which a plurality of subject groups set for every color to be corrected are arranged on a screen of the display device for confirmation of a correction effect involved in adjustment of an amount of color correction;

a setting-input-filed display controlling unit that displays a setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image on the screen of the display device;

a correspondence indicating unit that explicitly indicates the correspondence between each subject group and the corresponding setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image on the screen of the display device;

a correction information storage unit that stores the amount of color correction;

an image correction unit that performs color correction to image data on the basis of the amount of color correction read out from the correction information storage unit; and

an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium on the basis of the image data subjected to the color correction.

14. An image pickup apparatus comprising:

an image pickup unit;

a display device;

a sample image display controlling unit that displays a sample image in which a plurality of subject groups set for every color to be corrected are arranged on a screen of the display device for confirmation of a correction effect involved in adjustment of an amount of color correction;

a setting-input-filed display controlling unit that displays a setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image on the screen of the display device;

a correspondence indicating unit that explicitly indicates the correspondence between each subject group and the corresponding setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image on the screen of the display device;

a correction information storage unit that stores the amount of color correction; and

an image correction unit that performs color correction to image data that is picked up by the image pickup unit on the basis of the amount of color correction read out from the correction information storage unit.

15. An image pickup apparatus comprising:

an image pickup unit;

a display device;

a sample image display controlling unit that displays a sample image in which a plurality of subject groups set for every color to be corrected are arranged on a screen of the display device for confirmation of a correction effect involved in adjustment of an amount of color correction;

a setting-input-filed display controlling unit that displays a setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image on the screen of the display device;

a correspondence indicating unit that explicitly indicates the correspondence between each subject group and the corresponding setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image on the screen of the display device; and

a correction information storage unit that stores the amount of color correction as additional data concerning image data that is picked up by the image pickup unit.

16. A display apparatus comprising:

a display device;

a sample image display controlling unit that displays a sample image in which a plurality of subject groups set for every color to be corrected are arranged on a screen of the display device for confirmation of a correction effect involved in adjustment of an amount of color correction;

a setting-input-filed display controlling unit that displays a setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image on the screen of the display device;

a correspondence indicating unit that explicitly indicates the correspondence between each subject group and the corresponding setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image on the screen of the display device;

a correction information storage unit that stores the amount of color correction; and

an image correction unit that performs color correction to image data on the basis of the amount of color correction read out from the correction information storage unit.

17. A setup-screen display controlling method comprising the steps of:

displaying a sample image in which a plurality of subject groups set for every color to be corrected are arranged for confirmation of a correction effect involved in adjustment of an amount of color correction;

displaying a setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image; and

explicitly indicating the correspondence between each subject group and the corresponding setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image.

18. A program causing a computer to execute the steps of:

displaying a sample image in which a plurality of subject groups set for every color to be corrected are arranged for confirmation of a correction effect involved in adjustment of an amount of color correction;

displaying a setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image; and

explicitly indicating the correspondence between each subject group and the corresponding setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image.

19. A data structure comprising:

sample image data concerning a sample image in which a plurality of subject groups set for every color to be corrected are arranged for confirmation of a correction effect involved in adjustment of an amount of color correction; and

association data used to associate each subject group with a setting input field for the amount of color correction.